<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482837221602_34112"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482837221602_34751">a bit more fun of a sort Pat the lad has liked</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482837221602_34712"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482837221602_35055">But given the likelihood that the creamy froth with the big black bottom was consumed by Trad performers and indeed Colliers and maybe Colyers in volumes profitable to the Dublin brewery, how come we get pastiche black and white film of pseudo-jitterbugs and "when jazz hit New York" in a TV commercial recommending the beverage and pretending that Jazz was some sort of black waif rescued from racism soon after its arrival in NEW YORK -- by John Hammond? and presumably after 1935? <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482837221602_34826"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482837221602_35050">What have these ghastly copywriting hacks been drinking or smoking -- <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482837221602_35090"> nobody noticed Louis Armstrong in 1924??????? <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482837221602_35052"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482837221602_35064">Or perhaps the disinformation was a by-product of prohibition? <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482837221602_35066">Jazz could not have existed when Guinness was not legally on sale? <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482837221602_35048"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482837221602_35046"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482837221602_34906">BOYCOTT GUINNESS I shout, <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482837221602_34916">doubtless with the same ineffectuality many the honest man has been reduced to <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482837221602_34993">against the forces of the dark <br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">What of all those Italians in 1920s New York? <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482837221602_35081">With reference to the bad ad's reference to racism? <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482837221602_35079"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482837221602_35106">No Bixian should ever touch Guinness again! <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482837221602_35093"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482837221602_35108">(I have no delusion about this being a new idea -- lesser-known brands of Irish stout came on the UK market after the owners of Guinness organised the takeover of a Scottish whisky company some time back) <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482837221602_34907"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482837221602_35124">DOWN WITH .... something else in your glass!</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482837221602_35140">AND ALL THE BEST FOR 2017 !</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Robert R. Calder<br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482837221602_35111"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482837221602_35112"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482837221602_35113"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482837221602_35114"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482837221602_35115"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482837221602_35116"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482837221602_35117"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482837221602_35118"><br></div></div></body></html>